Adobe is preparing to launch Flash support for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus by the end of the year. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will run Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and Adobe AIR 3.1 next month. This will be the last version of Flash that is headed to Android since Adobe is stopping the support of Flash for mobile devices to focus on HTML5. [Adobe Blog]

Adobe Systems Incorporation (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Flash on mobile devices. The company has also revealed yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Adobe Flash on consumer electronics including web-connected TVs. Adobe plans to focus their energies on Adobe AIR and contribute to HTML5.

Since Apple released OS X Lion to the general public yesterday, it’s already gotten more than 7,000 five-star ratings in the App Store. In contrast to this positive response, Adobe has released a list of issues with Adobe products on machines running Lion. One such issue is that Apple may have disabled Flash hardware acceleration. In some cases Adobe offers suggestions of how to change Lion settings to better work with Adobe devotees’ expectations of product performance, but in other cases Adobe simply recommends that users do not update to OS X Lion. Many of the issues are small but obnoxiously annoying for anyone who uses the affected feature frequently, such as droplets not working in Photoshop CS3-CS5.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that Adobe Flash 10.2 will be available on Android devices running on Froyo, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb. Adobe 10.2 has increased performance from the previous version. The beta release of Adobe 10.2 does not utilize full hardware acceleration as that feature has been turned off. Hardware rending and compositing will be added in a later release. That release “will bring 720p playback to a really smooth, enjoyable level.” [Engadget]

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that they have launched the Flash Player 10.2 application for download on the Android Market on March 18th. The GA (General Availability) production of the Flash Player 10.2 application will initially be released as a beta for Android Honeycomb 3.0 tablets.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced Flash Player 10.2. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. As part of the launch, Adobe announced a full hardware accelerated video pipeline called Stage Video. Other features include custom native mouse cursors, multiple monitor full-screen support, IE 9 hardware accelerated rendering support, and enhanced sub-pixel rendering. Vimeo, YouTube, Epix, and Brightcove have started enabling support for Stage Video. [Adobe Blog]

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference earlier this week for an interview with John Battelle. The theme of the conference is “points of control” and he said that this statement describes what is happening between Adobe and Apple: “There’s a war happening for developers.”

One of the selling points for the Samsung Galaxy Tab was that it had Adobe Flash support. One of the arguments for having Flash on the Tab is that it gives you fuller access to the web. But what is the point if the device’s performance suffers as a result? I haven’t used the Tab myself, but there are a lot of reviews out there and all of them focus on how Flash slows the device down. Below are some of those reviews: